[lazarus] BorCon Update

[Mike Z]

At 11:09 AM 7/11/00 +0200, you wrote:
>
>Try to find out what they want with their cross-development library/tools
(clx).
>My guess is that they'll try to cooperate with TrollTech from the Qt
toolkit...
>

Yes, they are using Qt.  Reasons: it's mature, popular, already a
multi-platform toolkit, it was relatively easy to wrap OP around it, and
they were really impressed with the quality and coding standards (as if the
Qt programmers were 'heavily influenced by existing Borland code').

>And of course you can always ask:
>  'How does all this this compare to Free Pascal ?'

I had a quick look at glibc.pas, which was very similar to linux.pas.

>  'Why doesn't borland cooperate more with the FPC/Lazarus team in this C
and VB world?'
>But I'm not sure that you'll get a friendly reply :)
>

I didn't really get unfriendly replies.  They seem to have a pretty strong
corporate mentality, ie, they're developing a commercial product.  The
replies I got were that they were reluctant to even look at FPC because of
copyright issues.

Mike Z.